Ernestine Rose Quotes
Even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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The writer is all alone.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
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Being a parent is very important to me.
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Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
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Even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.
